Logica CiMS: Electric Vehicles solution - Business Benefits

Grid owners will potentially experience an unprecedented new load on the grid, forcing them to invest in grid reinforcement or adding grid intelligence. Early experience with electric vehicles (EV) charge point will make them understand the consequences and prepare for future investments.

Many governments are driving forces behind EV. By encouraging EV in subsidising cars and stimulating policies they try to maximise opportunities to improve air quality and public health. Local governments can also contribute by stimulating and facilitating charge points.

For all value chain partners electric vehicles offer new opportunities and horizons. They have to decide on the role to play in electric vehicles and develop the products to benefit. For electricity providers it brings new market with potential new customers, services and income.

The same applies to telecom companies, travel and credit card providers and parking operators, who will think over new business models.

Benefits of the system itself:

• Simplicity: The CiMS system is as easy to use. We’ve built it to be as intuitive as possible while making it really rich in functionality
• Protecting privacy: No one gets unauthorised access to driver data. The supplier of the users card can request access to driver data after a clear approval from the driver
• National and international standardization: Most of the system is based on national and international standards for technology, authentication and security
• Charge point independence: Standard interfaces allow CiMS to connect with different brands and types of charge points
• Infrastructure and customer management separation: Infrastructure management and customer management are two different systems. There is no chance of unauthorised access to driver data
• Remote charge point management: All charge points can be managed and monitored remotely. It enables remote charge point unlocks, opening and software updates
• Interoperability: International standards mean interoperability between different charge point systems. Drivers can use different charge points from different suppliers without the need of having a separate card from every charge point supplier
• Interfaces: CiMS can be integrated with several other systems, like CRM or billing
• Value added services: It’s possible to integrate business intelligence or additional maintenance software with CiMS too